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Episode 14 of the June Murders
Sally Adams had been taking things slow, trying to come to terms with what had happened. She was never sure when the tears would return. She had gone out to the shops to get some food and the weeping had crept over her in the supermarket aisle and people had stared. She was now living off food orders. As she had predicted, a few people from home had got in touch with her the day after it happened.
Her brother Jake called. They hadn’t spoken in years. He was older and had gone in a very different direction to Sally. He’d become a Lutheran preacher somewhere in Idaho. She was even surprised that he still had her number.
“I just felt I had to call,” he said, “when I heard what happened to your friend. Are you okay?”
What does one say in reply to that question, Sally thought, when the person you love has been murdered? And what do you say when you don’t believe the other person can ever understand?
Jake was obviously taken aback by the silence. “Sally, Sally, can you hear me? are you there?”
“Yes, I am here, Jake.” Sally said. “And I am doing as well as can be expected; just taking things a day at a time. Still in shock, I guess.”
Jake asked her if the police had any idea who had done it and did the police behave differently in…
